Hollywood’s plight of the living-dead movie

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The story involves a sleep-walk into potential disaster, gruesome
unintentional consequences and a bitter fight for survival. This, though, is
not the plot of the most expensive zombie movie in Hollywood history but the
tale of how it came into being.

When World War Z opens in cinemas next month, Brad Pitt will star as
Gerry Lane, a UN representative who must unravel the origins of a pandemic
that transforms humans into ravenous, undead flesh-eaters. Already, however,
the movie has provided one of Tinseltown’s great horror stories.

The film, which is based on a book by Max Brooks, the son of

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Brad Pitt in World War Z, which is $3m over budget and heading for disaster

May 23 2013 Jaap Buitendijk/AP

Brad Pitt in World War Z, which is $3m over budget and heading for disaster